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Asked: 2026-05-27T22:19:57+00:00

Possible Duplicate: How to parse and process HTML with PHP? How do I go

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How to parse and process HTML with PHP?

How do I go about pulling specific content from a given live online HTML page?

For example: http://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/ovation-semi-acoustic-guitar/93991967

I want to retrieve the text description, the path to the main image and the price only. So basically, I want to retrieve content which is inside specific divs with maybe specific IDs or classes inside a html page.

Psuedo code

$page = load_html_contents('http://www.gumtr..');
$price = getPrice($page);
$description = getDescription($page);
$title = getTitle($page);

Please note I do not intend to steal any content from gumtree, or anywhere else for that matter, I am just providing an example.

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  1. Editorial Team

    The tutorial Easy web scraping with PHP recommended by robotrobert is good to start, I have made several comments in it. For a better performance use curl. Among other things handles HTTP headers, SSL, cookies, proxies, etc. Cookies is something that you must pay attention.

    I just found HTML Parsing and Screen Scraping with the Simple HTML DOM Library. Is more advanced, facilitates and speed up the page parsing through a DOM parser (instead regular expressions –enough hard to master and resources consuming). I recommend you this last one 100%.

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